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    Space tug. Here's an example: just click here
    Suggested features:
    - Deploying payloads into different orbits and altitudes;
    - Correcting satellite or spacecraft orbit;
    - De-orbiting space debris or transferring space debris to disposal orbit;
    - Refuelling satellites or spacecrafts;
    - Transferring payloads into lunar orbit and interplanetary missions.


    Is this a promising technique?

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    Space tug. Here's an example: just click here
    Suggested features:
    - Deploying payloads into different orbits and altitudes;
    - Correcting satellite or spacecraft orbit;
    - De-orbiting space debris or transferring space debris to disposal orbit;
    - Refuelling satellites or spacecrafts;
    - Transferring payloads into lunar orbit and interplanetary missions.


    Is this a promising technique?
    That's very interesting — and wow, it's very small. And surely not that costly.

    But it absolutely doesn't need to be a huge thing to do a job like that. Added to the list might possibly be deflecting incoming asteroids... though it'd have to reach a very high velocity for that.
    • Diameter: 1.9 m
    • Length: 3.1 m
    • Main engine thrust in a vacuum: 3.5 kN

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    Quote Posted by TommyJ (here)
    Space tug. Here's an example: just click here
    Suggested features:
    - Deploying payloads into different orbits and altitudes;
    - Correcting satellite or spacecraft orbit;
    - De-orbiting space debris or transferring space debris to disposal orbit;
    - Refuelling satellites or spacecraft;
    - Transferring payloads into lunar orbit and interplanetary missions.


    Is this a promising technique?
    That's very interesting — and wow, it's very small. And surely not that costly.

    But it absolutely doesn't need to be a huge thing to do a job like that. Added to the list might possibly be deflecting incoming asteroids... though it'd have to reach a very high velocity for that.
    • Diameter: 1.9 m
    • Length: 3.1 m
    • Main engine thrust in a vacuum: 3.5 kN
    Thanks for your reply. I'm glad that what I'm interested in is also interesting to you. In principle, I liked the ideas of this small company. Yesterday I also found information that they tested the launch of a carrier rocket from a mobile spaceport. The deployment took place in just 4 days in Iceland. I think there is something in this. This provides opportunities for the expansion of many satellite launch businesses.

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